{"id":353220,"date":"2025-11-03T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:57:18","slug":"san-antonio-opens-first-municipal-archives-museum-showcasing-300-years-of-city-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/353220\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio opens first Municipal Archives Museum showcasing 300 years of city history"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 From hand-written documents dating back to the 1700s to gifts from San Antonio\u2019s sister cities around the world, a new museum showcases three centuries of municipal history.<\/p>\n

The Municipal Archives Museum, located at 719 South Santa Rosa St., officially opened to the public on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

The building where the museum is located is best known as the City\u2019s Vital Records Office \u2014 where residents pick up copies of birth certificates \u2014 but it also houses San Antonio\u2019s city archives.<\/p>\n

Now, for the first time, those records and artifacts will be on display for everyone to see.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis museum will actually go all the way back before the city was founded \u2014 to the Indigenous population that was here, the Presidio soldiers, and the Canary Islanders who founded our city in 1731,\u201d City Clerk Debbie Racca-Sittre said.<\/p>\n

The collection includes official city documents, maps, artifacts and photographs. Racca-Sittre said some of the oldest records are written in Spanish from the city\u2019s early years under Spanish rule.<\/p>\n

Among the featured items are a letter written by Santa Anna discovered in San Antonio and historic maps of the Alamo grounds showing what the site once looked like. <\/p>\n

The museum also showcases gifts from San Antonio\u2019s 11 sister cities, including those from China, Japan and Korea.<\/p>\n

Racca-Sittre said the project was made possible through 2022 bond funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really great for us to keep the history so that people will know where our city began and how have we progressed over the years, what kind of major milestones, what things happened,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The Municipal Archives Museum is free and open to the public on weekdays; however, appointments are required. Click here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

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